Sunday afternoon, Kelly and I stayed at home while Lorena and Christian ran to the store to do some shopping. As they were leaving, I reminded them to pick up a 750 piece puzzle to put together over the holidays. I emphasized the 750 piece part, then reminded them that anything bigger than that would take too long. So now we have the 1000 piece puzzle all laid out on the coffee table in the living room. It is a beautiful puzzle, but the difference between 750 pieces and 1000 pieces seems a little daunting. The kids say “no problem”. We will see. I have to admit, though, that it is going pretty well so far.
One new little thing that is happening as part of our homeschool is that Kelly and Christian spend a little bit of time every day singing together. Christian plays the guitar and they both sing. Christian’s new instructor is truly amazing. All of us take great pleasure in Alex’s knowledge and great work ethic. We want to find a voice teacher for Kelly starting this summer or in the fall.
Sounds so nice to hear they are singing. This will stay with them forever and you as the folks also. Puzzles…we love puzzles! Happy holidays to you and yours!
Thanks Sandra! We really loved to see the pictures of your return from Australia!
Troy
We were at Ollie’s the other day and saw puzzles that also had numbers on the back of each piece! Maybe that would work for the engineer types.
Numbers are ALWAYS good.
Eric
Cool, a post from Ken.
Ken,
We have the same tradition, although sometimes we tackle the 1000 piece puzzle. However, during Thanksgiving we tackled two 750 piece puzzles. One of horses in the snow and the other of baby polar bears on the Momma polar bear’s back. You would think with all the white we would have been stumped. Perhaps we have cracked the code for the 750 piece puzzle and are getting quicker.
I put out two old puzzles from previous years and no one will touch them. Why is that you have to open a new puzzle box or it doesn’t seem worth it?
It is fun to see the family come together to work on something in the same room. Sometimes one will work on the puzzle and when you reenter the room you discover that it it almost done.
Isn’t that great Deanne! The thing we have found over the years is that we are doing less and less of the puzzle and the kids are doing more and doing it faster. We are half way through with our puzzle right now and we are still five days from Christmas. I do not know what we will do if we finish it too early.
Would it be terrible if part of it fell and you had to redo part of it? Did I say that out loud, actually one of our cats or all three have undone some of our puzzles in the past. Its amazing how it brings us together to fix the almost finished puzzle. We haven’t started on another puzzle since Thanksgiving. I hope we find one soon so it is ready to open soon.
We have that EXACT SAME CAT issue at our house. Hmmm… Maybe I can blame it on the cats.